"Marcus R. Popetz" wrote:
> 
> I don't know about the code failing, but for the zombies, I couldn't find a
> sigchild handler in my brief grep of the code.  You might try:
> 
>      #reap zombies.
>      $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';
> 
> To clean up the zombie processes.
> 
> or
> local $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';
> if you like playing with local.

Hi Marcus, sorry about not replying sooner. Your idea works (though I
don't know how exactly) for getting rid of the zombie processes. Thanks
for the suggestion. (It doesn't seem to fix the problem of the process
failing though - that's another email).

Thanks again!

-Neil

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